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British hacker Stephen Tomkinson has found two Blu-Ray-borne attacks.His first exploit relies on a poor Java implementation in a product called PowerDVD from CyberLink. PowerDVD plays DVDs on PCs and... read more

Twitter has tripled the size of its abuse support team after the number of reports it handled increased five-fold in six months thanks to an expansion of harassment controls.The company did not... read more

When we reviewed the Samsung Galaxy S5 last year, the handset made a surprisingly good impression, thanks to its blazing performance, outstanding battery life, and a stunning Super AMOLED screen. We... read more

Today at MWC 2015, we played with the ZTE Grand S3. ZTE's new flagship device lets users unlock their phones by looking at the front-facing camera. The cutting edge solution, called Eyeprint ID,... read more

After our recent discovery that our Samsung TV was sending voice recognition data over the internet unencrypted, they sent the following response:“Samsung takes consumer privacy very seriously and... read more

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The RIAA wont be too happy when they see that news websites are starting to mirror Princeton
University Computer Science Professor Edward Felten's SDMI crack research online. I am sure
we will see other mirrors but I believe The Register is the first to do so here.

Earlier this month when a Michigan computer hacker accessed information about customers' phone bills from Ameritech's Web site, he publicized the security breach and was sued by the SBC Communications Inc. unit. A federal judge then issued a temporary injunction, effectively shutting down the site.

Height: unknown. Weight: unknown. M.O.: has ability to move invisibly over great distances, speak multiple languages and destroy the civilized world as we know it.

Vasyl Kondrashov matches the FBI's definition of the 21st century's Public Enemy No. 1 -- except for one thing. This 28-year-old who feeds his wife and toddler by teaching people how to break into other people's computers doesn't think what he does for a living is a crime.